Presenter:
Ian White, International Census Consultant

Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need for National Statistical Offices around the world to review the way they are able to collect information from the decennial censuses of population and housing. This webinar discusses some of the issues that affect the methodology, functions and processes of the census set within the context of: the global pandemic; the increasing reliance on the use of administrative data for statistical purposes; and the need to collect information generally in the journey towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals.

Bio:
Ian White has been involved, prior to his retirement from the UK’s Office for National Statistics in 2014, on each census in England and Wales since 1971. He was the editor of the UNECE’s recommendations for the 2021 round of censuses in the UNECE Region, and was, during the period 2012-2016, a member of a UN appointed international team of experts advising the Myanmar government on the conduct of, and the outputs from, the first census there for 30 years.

He is currently working with UNFPA on the preparations for the forthcoming censuses in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Moldova, and in the preparation on an e-learning course for countries moving to a register-based census methodology. He is also working with the statistical office in Albania on the planning for the next census there.

He is looking to publish his long-awaited book on the history of the census in the UK next year.

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